LUCIDITY

Dreams and deception collide in David Carnoy's page-turning tale of murder, manipulation, and mistaken identity

After his gripping debut in the thriller Knife Music and chilling reappearance in The Big Exit, Carnoy's Detective Hank Madden returns in this bicoastal suspense novel that pits dreams against reality, where nothing can be taken at face value.
Twenty years after the unsolved case of Stacey Walker's disappearance went cold, police detective Hank Madden is conscripted to find her body and track down her missing husband and presumed murderer. Four months later, editor Max Fremmer's client Candace Epstein is pushed in front of a car near Central Park. As he digs into her background to clear his name, Fremmer grows suspicious of Candace's connection to a nefarious institute for lucid dreaming on the Upper East Side. As similarities arise between the cases on each coast, Detective Madden and Fremmer forge an unlikely partnership to expose what misconduct lurks beneath the façade of the Lucidity Center and unravel the secret that links their investigations. Carnoy's Lucidity stuns with complex detail that will keep readers guessing until the final, satisfying jolt.

David Carnoy is an executive editor at CNET and is interviewed regularly on television as a tech expert, appearing on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, The Huffington Post, and other media outlets. He went to college at Wesleyan University and has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. Carnoy resides in New York City with his wife and children.